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Wildfires in Nizhny Novgorod
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 12:28 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 6,560 km² of Nizhny Novgorod at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 638 km², ranking 56th of 85 regions of Russian Federation.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2014, with 1,570 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 291 km². The 2021–2025 average is 46% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
April, May and June together hold 55% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 21 April 2014, with detections in 312 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 6,560 km² with at least one detection, 7.2% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 5,070 | 77% |
| 2 years | 1,010 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 424 | 6.5% |
| 6 to 10 years | 37 | 0.6% |
| 11 years or more | 8.3 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 55.25, 42.25 and holds 16% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 382 | 1,089 |
| 2013 | 693 | 1,604 |
| 2014 | 1,570 | 3,150 |
| 2015 | 637 | 1,390 |
| 2016 | 586 | 1,177 |
| 2017 | 614 | 1,154 |
| 2018 | 827 | 1,505 |
| 2019 | 953 | 1,637 |
| 2020 | 575 | 1,073 |
| 2021 | 681 | 1,250 |
| 2022 | 452 | 1,284 |
| 2023 | 322 | 708 |
| 2024 | 291 | 663 |
| 2025 | 346 | 866 |
Other regions of Russian Federation
- Sakha Republic30,750 km² in an average year
- Krasnoyarsk Krai15,900 km² in an average year
- Zabaykalsky Krai15,080 km² in an average year
- Amur14,950 km² in an average year
- Irkutsk9,420 km² in an average year
- Khabarovsk Krai8,150 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.